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Old 08-08-11, 01:06 AM   #1
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A little article I found in the New York Times showcasing my country

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/08/07...nes&emc=tha210

She only made two mistakes

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I faced the only pressing decision one faces in Piran: whether to drink Union pivo (beer) or Lasko pivo. I buckled under the pressure and ordered both.
BOTH are piss. You order a local home-brewn beer or a foreign one.

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Slovenia has an efficient bus system (veolia-transport.si) and rail network (slo-zeleznice.si/en) with multiple daily departures between Ljubljana and Piran, Maribor and Postojna. Most journeys cost less than 20 euros, or $28.20 at $1.41 to the euro.
Between Ljubljana and Piran, maybe. But once you get into the country the buses drive by the calendar, not the time. And the rail network, a nightmare. Frequent trains yes, but always late. And the highest suicide rate in the world means that there's a big chance someone will make you late by jumping in front of you train (had 3 such incidents myself when I was still studying in Ljubljana)
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